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Week 18 of 2026 (Apr 30 – May 6, 2026) · AWS News
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63 new features AWS announced in the week of Apr 30 – May 6, 2026
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Wednesday, May 6
AWS Site-to-Site VPN now supports modifying tunnel bandwidth on existing VPN connections
Amazon EC2 P6-B200 instances are now available in the AWS GovCloud (US-West) Region
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Runtime now supports bring-your-own file system from Amazon S3 Files and Amazon EFS
Amazon EC2 P6-B300 instances are now available in the US East (N. Virginia) Region
AWS Marketplace now supports programmatic procurement with Agreements API
Amazon Neptune now supports 1-click connect with CloudShell
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Memory announces metadata for long-term memory
AWS Elastic Beanstalk now supports TLS listeners for Network Load Balancers
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now supports ad trickplay personalization and compact DASH manifest optimization via dynamic transcoding
Announcing Agent Toolkit for AWS — help AI coding agents build effectively on AWS
The AWS MCP Server is now generally available
AWS Transfer Family web apps are now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
AWS Directory Service expands directory security settings with STIG-aligned controls for Managed AD
Tuesday, May 5
AWS Elemental MediaTailor now provides automatic secure server-to-server integration with Google's ad platforms
AWS SAM CLI adds BuildKit support for AWS Lambda functions packaged as container images
AWS SAM now supports WebSocket APIs for Amazon API Gateway
Amazon ElastiCache adds thirteen new Amazon CloudWatch metrics for network capacity planning and engine diagnostics
Amazon WorkSpaces now lets AI agents operate desktop applications (Preview)
Monday, May 4
Amazon CloudWatch Logs Insights supports querying by log group tags
Amazon WorkSpaces Applications now supports host-to-client URL redirection
AWS Entity Resolution launches support for incremental Machine Learning based matching workflows
Amazon FSx is now available in the AWS Asia Pacific (New Zealand) Region
Amazon Quick generates dashboards from natural language prompts
Friday, May 1
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in the South America (São Paulo) Region
FreeRTOS 202604 LTS now available with enhanced security and MQTT v5.0
Amazon CloudWatch RUM now supports Session Replay for Web Applications
OpenSearch UI supports cross-region data access to OpenSearch domains
Amazon CloudFront Announces WebSocket Support for VPC Origins
Thursday, Apr 30
AWS Payment Cryptography now supports paper-based key exchange
Amazon EKS now supports one-click cluster access through CloudShell
Amazon ECS Managed Instances now supports NVIDIA GPU metrics
Amazon MQ for RabbitMQ now supports Prometheus metrics
AWS IoT Core now supports customer managed domains in the AWS GovCloud (US) Regions
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Amazon MQ now supports in-place major version upgrades for RabbitMQ 4
Amazon Quick now integrates with New Relic for observability-driven AI agents
EC2 Instance Store CSI driver now generally available in EKS add-ons
Amazon Connect Cases now supports customer profile identity resolution
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore is now available in AWS GovCloud (US-West)
AWS Backup improves performance for Amazon EKS cluster backups
Amazon OpenSearch Service expands Cluster Insights with a new insight
AWS IAM now provides higher maximum quotas for roles, role trust policies, instance profiles, managed policies, and identity providers
Amazon Aurora DSQL now supports the JSON data type with compression
Amazon EC2 I8ge instances are now generally available in additional AWS regions
Amazon VPC Lattice resource configurations now support private domain-name targets
Amazon EventBridge supports data plane logging to AWS CloudTrail
Amazon Quick upgrades the extension for Microsoft Outlook (Preview)
AWS Payment Cryptography announces support for cross account key sharing
Amazon RDS for SQL Server now supports M8i and R8i instances
IAM Roles Anywhere now enforces VPC endpoint policies for the CreateSession API
Amazon Redshift Introduces Concurrency Scaling Support for auto-copy and zero-ETL
AWS Transform now offers BI migration agents for Power BI and Tableau to Amazon Quick
Spatial Data Management on AWS adds custom transformations
Announcing Kubernetes Dynamic Resource Allocation for Elastic Fabric Adapter
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports cross-account snapshot sharing with additional storage volumes
Amazon RDS for SQL Server supports read replica with additional storage volumes
Amazon SageMaker AI Now Supports Capacity-Aware Inference with Automatic Instance Fallback
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore Identity now supports On-Behalf-Of (OBO) token exchange
AWS Payment Cryptography adds integration to Multi-party approval for sensitive operations
AWS Neuron SDK now available with Neuron Agentic Development for NKI kernel development on Trainium
Amazon Bedrock AgentCore launches capabilities for optimizing agent performance in preview
AWS Lambda adds support for Ruby 4.0
Amazon Quick adds Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint extensions and updates the Word extension (Preview)
Amazon OpenSearch Service now supports index-level encryption